# “Prayer” by C.S. Lewis

- Link: https://tollelege.net/2012/05/10/prayer-by-c-s-lewis/
- Published: 2012-05-10T07:00:49-05:00
- Author: tollelege

PRAYER

Master, they say that when I seem
 To be in speech with You, Since You make no replies,
it’s all a dream —One talker aping two. They are half right, but not as they Imagine;
rather, I Seek in myself the things I meant to say, And lo! the wells are dry. Then,
seeing me empty, You forsake The Listener’s role, and through My dead lips breathe
and into utterance wake The thoughts I never knew. And thus You neither need reply
Nor can; thus, while we seem Two talking, Thou art One forever, and I No dreamer,
but Thy dream.

–C.S. Lewis, [“Prayer” in _Poems_](https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Poems+C.S.+Lewis&i=stripbooks&tag=toletaupanre-20)(
New York: Harvest, 1964), 122.

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## Comments

### By: Planting Potatoes

- Link: https://tollelege.net/2012/05/10/prayer-by-c-s-lewis/comment-page-1/#comment-7378
- Published: 2014-03-01T12:13:28-06:00

very good indeed!